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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Upfronts
The US television industry has long fascinated me, an entertainment outlet driven by technology. David Sarnoff introduced television at the World's Fair in 1939...
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The Challenges of Smart Cities
Earlier this week I attended the CCC workshop Computing Research: Addressing National Priorities and Societal Needs (video). The workshop covered a large collection...
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Open Questions
Through the years I've mentioned a few of my favorite open problems in computational complexity on this blog that have perplexed me through the years. Let me mention...
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Claude Shannon (1916-2001)
Claude Shannon was born hundred years ago Saturday. Shannon had an incredible career but we know him best for his 1948 paper A Mathematical Theory of Communication...
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The Master Algorithm
We see so few popular science books on computer science, particularly outside of crypto and theory. Pedro Domingos' The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the,...
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Who Controls Machine Learning?
After AlphaGo's victory, the New York Times ran an article The Race Is On to Control Artificial Intelligence, and Tech’s Future. A platform, in technology, istweeted...
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It's All About the Jobs
In the April CACM Moshe Vardi asks Are We Headed toward Another Global Tech Bust? I agree with some of Vardi’s points, mostly that VC money chasing after unicorns...
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The Machine Learning Turk
Google's AlphaGo took the world by storm when it won its match with Lee Sedol but Demis Hassabis now acknowledges the dark truth. Google wanted to promote its cloud...
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MohammadTaghi HajiAghayi on David Johnson
More than a week ago, I heard the very sad news that David Johnson has passed away after one year fight with cancer. I felt that I should write a memorial note...
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Complexity versus Complexity
For those interested, I've started writing posts for the Predictwise Blog. Predictwise makes predictions of future events such as who will win the Republican Nomination...
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The Value of Shapley
Nobel laureate Lloyd Shapley passed away Saturday. We best know Shapley for his stable matching algorithm with David Gale. Nicole Immorlica guest posted on stable...
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David Johnson (1945-2016)
David Johnson, a leader and advocate for algorithms and all of theoretical computer science, passed away last night at the age of 70. A truly sad day for us all...
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Changing This Ancient Art Into a Science
The ACM announced yesterday that they will award the 2015 Turing Award to Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman for contributions to modern cryptography. The Turing...
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Primary Game Theory
[Nominations open for the SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize. Deadline: April 1] The US presidential primaries have not gone as expected as you can see from the...
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Posting Papers
In the ancient days of the 80's, if someone wanted a paper from you, they would ask and you would mail via post. Sometimes I would get a self-addressed envelope...
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The Moral Hazard of Avoiding Complexity Assumptions
Moshe Vardi's CACM editor letter The Moral Hazard of Complexity-Theoretic Assumptions practically begs a response from this blog. I also encourage you to read the...
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Go Google Go
In 2009 I posted about a surprising new approach that moved computer Go from programs that lose to beginners to where it could beat good amateurs. That approach...
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We Still Can't Beat Relativization
As we celebrate our successes in computational complexity here's a sobering fact: We have had no new non-relativizing techniques in the last 25 years. A little...
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The Growing Academic Divide
The decreases of the past three years bring the number of advertised jobs to a new low, below the level reached after the severe drop between 2007–08 and 2009...
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